Relative Values: Chris Patten, former governor of Hong Kong, and his daughter Alice

Chris Patten, 66, former governor of Hong Kong and now chancellor of Oxford University, and his actress daughter Alice, 32

Alice: I used to think that ambition and power and status are what makes a man great. And then I realised that those are not the things I value in my dad at all - it's the fact that he's incredibly funny and very kind and very good. But because he's so open and honest about how he feels, I have to remind myself that he is most definitely an alpha. There's a big ego there. He's very much the patriarch at home. He takes his seat at the end of the table, and we all run around him.

He's a big storyteller. Every summer holiday when we were kids, we used to do a revue; Dad would write and perform a song all about the holiday, and me and my sisters would stand behind him like little Rockettes and we'd do the doop-de-doop bits. Always the backing singers, never the